Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

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Please tell me which North American cities have hard architectural standards controlling whether any given building is to be allowed to be built.

There are voluntary committees in some of the major Canadian cities, which do a good job at permitting the sort of absolute slop you see in this region being built, unless it's considered low value land. It's not like Toronto or Vancouver don't have really ugly developments, they're just far less noticeable for many reasons.

But it's not even about committees, design and review boards or only allowing good architects/designers/planners to work. You just need your local society to have common sense and a desire to utilize good placemaking choices for the evolution of the built environment they and their descendants want to live in. The problem is, almost nobody in Waterloo Region really gives a shit. Thus, you end up with stuff like this and all the other issues that exist.

The new Airport Growth plan has been posted; it has recommendations for extensions of both runways and, perhaps most dramatic, eventually changing the main entrance from Fountain Street to the extended Ottawa Street - and building a completely new passenger terminal, on the northeast side of the runway join.

Full details:

https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeet...ntId=17431 (155MB PDF)

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